Posted on 09/08/2010 12:35:20 PM PDT by SmithL
San Francisco's only gun store could lose its permit to sell guns at a hearing today.
But even if it wins, Steven Alcairo, the manager at High Bridge Arms on Mission Street, fears that his store will lose the greater war - the one over the neighborhood.
Alcairo, 36, a San Francisco native and Mission District resident, will ask the Police Department to reinstate a use permit that lapsed in January because the gun store's owner was planning to convert it to office space.
The city denied the office proposal, Alcairo said, and, faced with an empty retail space, the owner wanted to return the store to what it's done for five decades on Mission near Valencia Street - sell guns.
"Our store has been a member of this community longer than most neighbors who live here," Alcairo said. "It doesn't make sense to us that a small percentage of them are suddenly upset that we're here and want us to leave."
In May, when High Bridge Arms asked to renew the permit, three neighborhood groups, led by the North West Bernal Alliance, asked the city to turn it down.
The conflict has been framed as an only-in-San Francisco values dispute - latte liberals vs. Second Amendment gun nuts - and has drawn attention from the National Rifle Association, some of whose members started a letter-writing campaign to the city's permit officers.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
But I’m sure a gay porn shop / bathhouse in the same location would be A-OK.
A “Gun Free Zone” is a dead zone.............
Along with a NAMBLA safehouse.
Disgusting city. I grew up 30 miles from there, but I haven't been there in decades. I have no intention of ever returning.
“Gay Guns, Inc.”
Approved.
Do the Mexican cartel member host open-air gun bazaars, since SF is a sanctuary city?
member=members
That’s it! They need the Pink Pistols to get involved. Not all gays are 2nd Amendment haters.
turn it into a homeless shelter and suck grant money outta the city...
A local gun shop here is just that. People hang out talking guns, hunting or anything else on their minds. Other patrons are just as likely to help a customer as the staff. And you know it's the safest venue for shooting the breeze (figuratively) in town since almost everybody's armed. An armed robbery there would be a very short-lived suicide mission.
Maybe that's the problem. They don't like effectively criminal-free zones. It discriminates against criminals.
“GLBT Guns, Inc”
Even more approved.
No gun stores in Frisco! Good idea. This means more violent criminals and thus fewer Democrat voters at the polls in the future. I firmly believe in strict gun control and bans in all liberal areas. Then post signs declaring these gun free zones.
“Shoot Your Load Guns” - approved.
“Bangin’ Guns” - approved
Nancy, Barbara, and Dianne think that they can use this local radical issue to keep their people from looking at what they have done to them. The gay community for one apparently thinks that this purity of faith maintenance is better than what Obamacare is doing to their precious HIV treatment.
that’s for damn sure
“Gun store? no way! Mosque? no problemo!”
"Packing fudge?, carry the Judge" (Taurus)
"Boy&Boy need H&H".
"Field stripping a Glock- easier than hanging drapes."
"Think that latte gives a jolt? Wrap your hands around a Colt."
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